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Gender difference in perceived loudness: aiming for establishing guidelines for sound scape design

Research Project

Project/Area Number 16K16248
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Research Field Design science
Research InstitutionUtsunomiya University

Principal Investigator

Tsusuta Mariko  宇都宮大学, 工学部, 助教 (80748202)

Project Period (FY) 2016-04-01 – 2019-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2018)
Budget Amount *help
¥3,770,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥870,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥2,340,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥540,000)
Keywords男女差 / ラウドネス / 間隔尺度 / 比率尺度 / スティーブンスのべき法則 / 文化的背景 / マグニチュード推定法 / マグニチュード産出法 / 実験系心理学 / デザイン学
Outline of Final Research Achievements

To clarify the factors affecting the gender difference in perceived loudness, we conducted two experiments: Experiment 1 was conducted with the participants without gender difference in hearing threshold, and Experiment 2 was with insertion type earphones. Experiment 1 showed that the gender difference in perceived loudness was observed only when the participants evaluated the loudness of sound with verbal criteria such as “loud” and “soft”. Gender difference in perceived loudness might be affected by gender that in the verbal criteria. Experiment 2 did not show consistent gender differences. This result suggested that the difference in head size would not affect that in perceived loudness.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

音の大きさの評価に男女差が生じる要因は未だ明らかではなかったが,その要因として言葉による音の大きさの評価基準における男女差が影響している可能性が示唆された。その一方で,聴力レベル,頭などの大きさ,音圧と感覚量の対応関係の男女差の影響は小さいことが示された。なお,中国人を被験者とした場合には音圧と感覚量の対応関係に男女差が認められたこのことから,どのような要因が音の大きさの評価における男女差に大きく影響をするのかは今後の課題で継続して検討する必要がある。

Report

(4 results)
  • 2018 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2017 Research-status Report
  • 2016 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (4 results)

All 2019 2018 2016

All Journal Article (1 results) (of which Peer Reviewed: 1 results,  Open Access: 1 results) Presentation (3 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 3 results,  Invited: 1 results)

  • [Journal Article] Gender differences in loudness perception may be linguistically influenced2019

    • Author(s)
      Mariko Tsuruta-Hamamura, Manami Aono and Shin-ichiro Iwamiya
    • Journal Title

      Mechanical Engineering Journal

      Volume: 6

    • Related Report
      2018 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Presentation] Difference of perceived loudness of sound between Chinese males and females2018

    • Author(s)
      Mariko Tsuruta-Hamamura, Giaming Wang, Manami Aono and Shin-ichiro Iwamiya
    • Organizer
      inter-noise 2018
    • Related Report
      2018 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Difference of perceived loudness of sound between Chinese males and females2018

    • Author(s)
      Mariko Tsuruta-Hamamura, Giaming Wang, Manami Aono, Sin-ichiro Iwamiya
    • Organizer
      inter-noise 2018
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Gender differences in optimal listening levels and loudness perception2016

    • Author(s)
      Mariko Hamamura, Manami Aono and Shin-ichiro Iwamiya
    • Organizer
      inter-noise 2016
    • Place of Presentation
      Congress Center Hamburg (Hamburg, Germany)
    • Year and Date
      2016-08-21
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited

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Published: 2016-04-21   Modified: 2020-03-30  

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